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As many of us struggle to make sense of the senseless acts of violence in Baton Rouge, St. Paul and Dallas over the past week, North alumni Maggie Andresen uses photography to lend a hand.

Maggie (daughter of our Librarian, Mrs. Dickerson) took this photo in New Orleans during a protest march this weekend. Maggie is interning with the Times Picayune newspaper for the summer. Her photo was picked up by Associated Press and was featured as the closing picture on last night’s ABC world news and CNN’s newshour.

Maggie graduated CHSN in 2013 and is studying photo journalism at Temple University in Philadelphia.

This photo and others like it are on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibit, Faking It, was reviewed in the NY Times on Friday. Long before the invention of Photoshop, artists like Man Ray were manipulating photographs to confuse reality with illusion.

The Magazine section of the NY Times had a very powerful photo essay yesterday that you may want to check out. The article was called Lost Soldiers and it memorializes fallen soldiers with photographs of their bedrooms back home. Through these images, and the possessions we see in each room, the viewer gains an understanding and appreciation for who these young men were to the people they left back home. Very powerful.

you can learn about artists such as Andy Warhol, Chuck Close, Ansel Adams, William Wegman, Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Rauschenberg and David Hockney. All of these artists used the Polaroid camera in their art. Now, many of these works will be auctioned off in June to recovery bankruptcy debt due to a Ponzi scheme.

The living legend, photographer Annie Liebovitz, faces a $24 million dollar load deadline today. If she does not repay the load to Art Capital the rights to all of her photographs, both current and future, will belong to Art Capital. For more information read this article from today’s New York Times.